World Travel Market, the leading global event for the travel industry, is calling on its WTM Buyers’ Club members to register for the hugely popular WTM Speed Networking programme.
Speed Networking has proved incredibly successful since its introduction at WTM 2010. Last year the traditional Monday morning pre-WTM opening session, designed to drive at event business deals, was joined by a Thursday session aimed at facilitating post-event business.
The two sessions were attended by 310 buyers and 867 exhibitors and play a key role in WTM 2012 facilitating a record £1,860 million in industry deals.
Matt Cheevers, UK Managing Director for upmarket online private sales business VoyagePrive said: “Speed networking is a perfect way to start World Travel Market.. Almost everyone I talked to was relevant, and in this context it is possible to get down to the key points of interest.”
WTM Buyers’ Cub Manager Raj Thakkar urged buyers to sign up to the Speed Networking sessions. The email inviting registrations will be sent to all WTM Buyers’ Club members in the coming weeks.
“The WTM Speed Networking sessions are vital in helping buyers and exhibitors conduct business negotiations and sign contracts,” he said.
“Due to this the sessions are over-subscribed every year so buyers should apply immediately to avoid disappointment,” he said.
Reed Travel Exhibitions, Director World Travel Market, Simon Press said: “WTM Speed Networking has been a great success since it was introduced in 2010. Both exhibitors and WTM Meridian Club buyers have really embraced the concept of quick initial business meetings to discover if there is an opportunity for further detailed discussions.
“World Travel Market’s purpose is to facilitate business deals between exhibitors and buyers and the WTM Speed Networking programme can only lead to WTM generating even more industry deals.”
